This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.
For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.
Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.
And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:
For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.